Our Services
First and foremost, we aspire to be the best and provide best-of-breed bespoke corporate and financial solutions to you using the 'secret sauce' of our 5Ps of Success!
Our fusion of venture capital, corporate finance and strategic management consulting into one discipline sets us apart from the others. Together with our flexible approach in seeking to assist and empower each client in coping with its unique and challenging needs as it keeps apace with both the growth of its business and changes in market dynamics, enables us to custom-make every solution to each business. Think of us as your corporate tailors giving you a bespoke corporate solution to your very particular situation every time.
For simplicity, we provide the following 'packages' of services to our portfolio companies and clients:
Venture Capital Funding
Netrove manages venture capital funds that invest mostly in businesses in start-up, angel and growth stages. We actively participate and work closely with entrepreneurs by adding business, management and technology entrepreneurial values to accelerate the business development and growth of our clients and portfolio companies.
Benchmark criteria used by us to appraise a business and its founding or managing entrepreneurs:
- Good and experienced management with a strong passion and commitment to the business vision/mission, credible track record and good integrity
- Products/Services in demand or that are innovative and/or inventive – a distinct market opportunity
- Market scale & business scalability that is regional
- Sound go-to-market strategy in fast growing segments and execution plan
- Good business model and value proposition
- Clear exit options and avenues
Entrepreneurial Venture Consulting
Continuous capital requirement is always crucial to a high growth or technology company’s survival and success. Netrove assists entrepreneurs in their capital raising exercises which includes formulating funding strategy, deal matching, deal structuring and negotiation and post investment investor relations management.
The services inevitably encompass the following to prepare the entrepreneurs and the company as a whole for the corporate exercise:-
- Management consulting and advisory services including strategic business and corporate planning and advisory
- Technical advisory including technology trending, road-mapping and R&D
- Operational, sales & marketing positioning and market entry advisory
- Financial management including matters such as valuation, financial planning, forecasting, cash-flow planning and analysis and budgeting
A variety of funding sources and instruments may be used including equity investment, project financing, loans and grants. Netrove has extensive access to regional high net worth individuals, corporate and institutional sources of funds.
Corporate Finance Advisory
Crucial to entrepreneurs or a venture-backed company is to create “exit” opportunities for themselves or their investors. A liquidity event for example an IPO is usually a significant watershed for an enterprise although we often look at it as a means rather than an end to a longer term successful venture-backed entrepreneurship. It is often uplifting not only for the entrepreneurs but also for the general staff, partners and clients as well and is an impactful boost to the continuing growth of the business.
Netrove actively identifies and creates exit opportunities or liquidity events through its network in the region and by closely studying market trends. These exit events may be in any of the following forms:-
- M&A/restructuring followed by a liquidity event
- Facilitation of an IPO exercise on any of the regional growth or tech boards
- Trade sale to a strategic partner or later round investors
- MBO exercises
Business Acceleration & Advisory
As an important complementary service to our core businesses, Netrove is able to assist entrepreneurs to accelerate their growth and expansion overseas by leveraging its know-who and know-how across the region. Uniquely, for select sectors and types of businesses, Netrove can play a role in go-to-market and market entry strategies and execution for countries such as China, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand.
In addition, Netrove provides the following services in complement to its other core services and on a selective basis:-
- Management and turn-around of crisis and troubled companies
- Portfolio monitoring and supervision
- Due and corporate diligence
- Interim executive management
- Executive/business mentoring and coaching